Fine and large silk Cashmere, India, circa 1975 Silk velvet on cotton foundation Ivory field decorated with scrolls of fine crenellated stems with polychrome stylized flowers and foliage framing a large central rosette with a diamond-shaped floral crown Four spandrels with finely drawn floral bulbs Six borders, the main one in midnight blue with semis of palmettes of old gold flowers Good condition 280 x 185 cm.

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